Browsed byMonth: August 2017

If you are like many in the personal finance community, you have more spreadsheets than you own shoes. We generally love our data sets and projections. I have one spreadsheet that lets me have all of my mortgage payments recalculate to see how different payment strategies would affect the final payoff date. A lot of us also love to track and make public our net worth. We do this to keep ourselves accountable for what we write and be on…

Growing up in the country and having a farmer as your dad you tend to have a respect for nature. You see the cows that give you milk as the gentle creatures they are and the land as something that helps yield the crops to feed the cows. Doesn’t help having a home surrounded by beautiful trees. Sorry that was a little hippy-ish. Thinking Green I really think the thing that triggered my interest in green technology was the Tesla…

I’ve never been one to care what others think of me. I have to learn to care a little bit at work once a year for self reviews though. Otherwise to me the only opinions that matter are my son’s and wife’s. Sibling Outing This creates interesting situations for me. Back in college my oldest sister invited me grocery shopping. She wanted to help me out with food and have some sibling bonding time. A little back story, I am…